LeBron and Team Giannis team hosted a show in Charlotte. Here's every big moment of the 2019 All-Star game.

Kevin Durant won his second-star All-Star MVP after helping the LeBron team return from a deficit of 20 points in a 178-164 victory over Team Giannis. Durant finished the game with a high-ranking team: 31

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Dwyane Wade in Maya Jay Jersey, throwing a ride on a teammate LeBron James, holding hands broadly as James tries to break This decade began with that James and Wade are united in Miami, entering into a new era of expanding players' capabilities and creating one of the most iconic couples in the history of sport.

Fast – ahead until Sunday night, where two old friends and teammates were on one side the last time this year for the NBA All-Star Game. Playing together at the LeBron team, they got their last chance at the time when Kevin Durant stole the pass at the beginning of the third quarter and threw it forward to Wade

Wade threw the ball from the shield.

Brilliant copy of the painting.

It was a small moment in the foolish show game, but it's the one that challenges James to wait for him to return to his day at Los Angeles Lakers.

A few years ago, he decided to leave Cleveland and connect with O'Dean and Chris Boss on the shore of Biscayne Bay, creating a team that won two championships and reached four straight NBA finals. This summer, James must find someone to do what he did then: choose to play with him and turn his team into a rival championship.

He needs to find his next Dwain Wade. 2019 All-Star game for 89-55 runs in the last 21:30 game. Streeter Lecka / Getty Images

Due to his election, the name Team LeBron was quickly and sarcastically replaced by Team Tampering.

Throughout this weekend – as well as 48 minutes of actions that took place at the Spectrum Center here, Queen City – every word, conversation and coverage between James and one of the innumerable soon stars of a free agent in his brigade were analyzed for their collective future. .

From Davis to Kevin Durant, Kiri Irving to Cavi Leonard, Kla Thompson to Damian Lillard – whoever was on the floor with James, home fans could have a game, dreaming about how they would look with him in the form of " Lakers ".

James tried to talk about the topic, it's hard to believe that he did not do the same. In the end, the Lakers 28-29 lead the final 25 games of the season, a brutal closing consisting of 18 games against the current play-off team. Even worse, it's a long-running franchise due to Davis's unsuccessful pursuit.

One thing is that James will be able to choose from the pool All-Stars to play with him in the show game. . This is completely different to make one or more of them play with him in Los Angeles. And, if anything, this weekend served as another reminder of how great a challenge James and Lakers have in front of them to do just that.

Passing through Timpering's other team members, along with other free agents, and studying where their basketball flip-flop can quickly lie, underlines the potential difficulties facing James in Los Angeles.

Kevin Durant

We will start with Durant, the first choice of James and one of the few people

But Durant himself was very vocal about the game with James in the article Bleacher Report in December.

a lot of noise comes from being around LeBron from other people, "Durant said. "He has so many fans in the media, even those who wrote to beat just reeled it in. I like we are playing basketball here, and it's not even about basketball at certain moments, especially when attention is paid to the bulls – mind, down is not at all the fault of LeBron, it's just the fact that you have many groups who love to hold on to every word.

Detening Durant's criticism in the media that he has done a lot since then, in including this weekend, it's still hard to see his way to Los Angeles. "If Durant leaves" Gold " en This State of Warriors "this summer – something more people around the league are convinced that this will happen – the firm belief in the league is that he will join the New York City Nix.

Kyrie Irving

He and James set up fences In a recent phone call, Irving's news stunned a crowd of reporters in Boston last month after a dramatic victory over Toronto Raptors

. Irving is no longer as happy in Boston as in October announcing plans to re-signing with Celtics led to the fact that Irving will be able to start playing in another city Race next season.

t turn around – especially if Boston can negotiate with New Orleans to get Davis. The biggest checkpoint to the ongoing deal – Davis does not want to stay in Boston – disappeared on Saturday when he said that Celtics is, in fact, his list of desirable seats.

But if Boston does not get Davis – or Irving simply decides to go – Nix is ​​considered a much more likely appointment than a meeting with James.

Anthony Davis

When New Orleans did not trade Davis this season, the window for the Lakers to get it dropped sharply. Now Boston can offer a much more attractive package than Los Angeles can unite. And if Celtics gets it, Boston can offer him a chance to win what he believes is his top priority – in the team next to Irwin – in the next decade.

Nix – but only if they succeed in winning the top lottery in the lottery, and with it the opportunity to make the duke superstar Zion Williamson. If this happens, perhaps Durant, Irving and Davis will find their way to Nix, a scenario that can currently be classified as a feverish dream for long-suffering supporters of large apples.

Kawhi Leonard

Leonard, meanwhile, is far from sure what will be in Toronto last season.

But while Leonard is intrigued by the opportunity to go back home in Southern California, this is the second team at Staples Center – – LA Clippers – who remain important favorites to provide their services if he decides to leave the Raptors.

Field

Then there are guys who are perceived as quite certain to stay with their current teams – with the exception of some unforeseen changes in the landscape.

Clay Thompson has long been regarded as an ideal device for playing with James – not to mention his father, Michał, – an analyst on radio collection. But as long as the warriors of this year do not make Thompson, and, given the uncertainty around the future of Durant, they do not expect that they will do with him – Thompson is expected to remain in the Golden State. How unhappy is the odds of Charlotte Hornets being a real rival any time soon, it makes sense if Kemba Walker wants to head elsewhere. But he did not give any signs he wants, and with Charlotte almost certainly had the opportunity to offer him a supermak this summer – a $ 200,000 deal – Walker seems to be destined to stay in North Carolina.

] The same applies to the little forward Milwaukee Bucks Chris Middleton (Team Giannis) and Philadelphia 76nd forward Tobias Harris (All-Star snub). Bucks have headed their best season in the decade and need to keep Giannis Antetokounmpo happy because he will have his own decision to make about his future next summer. This makes it hard to see a scenario in which Bucks will allow Middleton to walk, given that there are several – if any – ways to find an update for him this summer.

Philadelphia, meanwhile, has abandoned the first two rounds of elections and the promising rookie in Landry Shamet to get Haris from Clippers for a term of trade – a step that can be seen throughout the league, not just the Sixers who go to it this season , but also insurance for the future of a small forward Jimmy Butler (2018 All-Star).

The general manager of Elton Brand announced that Greenlit owns both Harris and Butler in the summer. That said, doing so (probably in the maximum deal), along with the current contract of Joel Embilida and approaching the maximum contract for Ben Simmons, would send Philadelphia deeply to the luxury tax

. Of these, Butler is considered more likely to leave. Harris is better suited stylistically because of his elite ability to shoot – not to mention Butler's short time in Philadelphia, as trade was, at times, uneven. But when Butler made his original list of desirable destinations last fall, before lobbying Philadelphia, the Lakers were not on it.

Meanwhile, the teams that were – Clippers, Nix and Brooklyn Network – will still have the Maximum Space available for signing it.

Nevertheless, Butler is considered to be the most realistic option that may end in Los Angeles. The same applies to the Golden State Warriors Center DeMarcus Cousins ​​ (2018 All-Star), although it comes with its own set of risks – in particular, the torn left tendon of Achilles, from which it only recently returned. Making a long-term deal with big money for him, as a saying, a risky proposition. However, this may be the best option for the Lakers.

And if the Lakers decided to repeat what they did this summer – they will be confronted with numerous problems when it comes to space by 2020. First, one of those young players, Brandon Ingram, will become a free agent and will become much more expensive. The other is that if Davis remains with any bidding team for him – that, assuming he gets into a good situation, one must consider the real possibility – the rest of the class of free agents this year is not as attractive as attractive.

The Lakers and LeBron hope to play the team Team Tampering The LeBron team will be a metaphor for what will happen in July. After the start of the game, it would seem that falling asleep and lagging behind in the 20th in the third quarter, James and his star broke back into the game in the second half, making 21 3s in the last 21 minutes of the game, eventually emerging as the winner.

] "You put me on the floor, I love to compete," James said after that. "I'm a competitor, no matter what it is.

" I'm competing to see if I can get to this table first.

James then asked the moderator if someone gave an interview before him.